Flutist Camilla Hoitenga was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA) but now lives in Cologne, Germany. She has traveled extensively, performing not only in internationally important music centers (Salzburg, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Helsinki) but also in more out-of-the-way places like Nicosia, Cyprus, Barossa Valley/Australia or the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Her programs present new music as naturally as works from the classic repertoire, and her range of experience reflects her eclectic interests: from playing Bach in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw to sharing a stage with an 11th-generation Buyô dancer in a Tokyo theater to recording flute and electronics for German radio.
In concerto performances, Camilla Hoitenga has enjoyed working with such established conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Marin Alsop with the young Estonian Erki Pehk.
Her long-standing collaboration with composers has enabled her to premiere an exotic assortment of music from places all over the world, e.g. Karlheinz Stockhausen's Amour in Germany, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi's Four Scenes for Flute and orchestra in Osaka, and most recently Kaija Saariaho's concerto Aile du songe, premiered in Brussels. She has worked with Saariaho since 1982, collaborating with her in Paris, Helsinki and Tokyo on solo- and chamber works for flute and with film, text and recordings for the CD-Rom Prisma.
Camilla Hoitenga is also known for her collaborations with visual artists (e.g. Peter Drake, Mutsumi Okada, Jörg Immendorff), and for her improvisations in art galleries and museums (e.g. "for Yves Klein" in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne). The sculptor Ansgar Nierhoff created for her a three-dimensional "score" out of iron, a piece called Anlehnen ("to lean on"), which she has interpreted in various environments.
Camilla Hoitenga has taught at the State University of New York and at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen and continues to teach in masterclasses and workshops, in her private studio, and in special projects for school classes, designed to open new cultural perspectives for the next generation. Her own flute teachers were Darlene Dugan, Alexander Murray, Peter Lloyd and Marcel Moyse. Further inspiration came in the course of studies at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, Calvin College (B.A.) and the University of Illinois (M.Mus., D.M.A.).
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